Sat.Jul 26, 2014 - Fri.Aug 01, 2014

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Power Your Patient Portal with the Latest Advances in Data Science

CTOvision

'By Eugene Borukhovich. With U.S. agencies mandating that healthcare providers engage their consumers through patient portals, data science may be the secret weapon for physicians and health care organizations to not only comply with that mandate, but provide a level of service that bonds them to patients under their care. Combined with electronic health records (EHR), patient portals allow physicians and patients to collaborate, providing a means for patients to meaningfully participate in thei

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Businesses and the Big Data Skills Shortage

Data Center Knowledge

'Businesses understand the importance of big data so the problem doesn’t come from getting them on board, writes Rick Delgado. The difficulty lies in finding the right people for the various big data jobs. Read More.

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5 Tips For Creating Effective Business Partnerships

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs can use business partnerships to achieve more Image Credit. As the person with the CIO job you are faced with a double challenge : despite the importance of information technology you have a limited budget and you have limited resources. This means that in order to get everything done that the rest of the company is expecting you to do, you are going to have to get creative.

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Is Marketing Really Shortchanging IT?

Eric D. Brown

'I just finished reading Marketing’s New Digital Role Is Shortchanging IT. The article had a good premise (e.g., IT and Marketing are fighting for budget) but rather than discuss the real reasons for this current predicament, the author obliquely places the blame at the feet of the Marketing group for ‘stealing’ budget from IT. The author claims that Marketing is shortchanging IT by taking budget away from IT initiatives.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic Briefs Current and Future Business Opportunities (and tries to redefine history)

CTOvision

'Over 400 Industry representatives met in Charleston on 30 July 2014 for the Small Business Industry Outreach Initiative Symposium (SBIOI) where SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic (SSC LANT) briefed their current and future opportunities. Anyone who travels to Charleston this time of year, when the temperature and humidity level are unbearable, should be rewarded for his or her efforts!

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Hulu Chooses Cassandra Over HBase and Riak

Data Center Knowledge

'To support quality experience for what is now north of 6 million users, the streaming site''s IT team redesigned the service and found that Cassandra was the best fit for its needs. Read More.

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A Quick Introduction to CoreOS

Scott Lowe

'In this post, I’m going to provide a very quick introduction to CoreOS. CoreOS, in case you haven’t heard of it, is a highly streamlined Linux distribution designed with containers, massive server deployments, and distributed systems/applications in mind. CoreOS is built around a number of key concepts/technologies: The OS is updated as a whole, not package-by-package.

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Napatech: Accelerating Network Management and Security Applications

CTOvision

'Napatech is the world leader in accelerating network management and security applications. They focus on keeping their customers one step ahead of the data growth curve by accelerating applications and time-to-market while reducing risk. Napatech customers cover a broad range of industries and applications including some of the largest and most innovative technology companies.

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Understanding the Types of Prefabricated Modular Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'When creating your data center model, take the time to understand the different types of prefabricated modular data centers. Read More.

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No business case for SDN

Virtualized Greek

'One of the great things about both VMware NSX and Cisco ACI is that both have brought a great deal of attention to Software Defined Networking (SDN). SDN is fascinating and innovating technology. Whether you are taking Cisco’s programmable hardware-based.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Installing the Docker Plugin for Heat

Scott Lowe

'In this post, I’ll share with you how I installed the Docker plugin for OpenStack Heat, so that Heat is able to orchestrate the creation of Docker containers in an OpenStack environment. I’m publishing this because I found the default instructions to be a bit too vague to be helpful. By sharing my experience, I hope that others interested in using Docker in their OpenStack environment will benefit.

Linux 71
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Update on 8-10 Oct Pentaho World: Speakers and Agenda Announced

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. If you work in an enterprise that leverages data (and don’t all enterprises these days leverage data?) you will want to attend Pentaho World 8-10 October in Tampa. This event brings together champions of the open architecture/open approach/open framework world of big data and the engineers and leaders of Pentaho and their partners to enhance sharing of lessons learned and repeatable use cases.

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Canada’s Shaw Communications buys ViaWest for $1.2B

Data Center Knowledge

'Becoming another telco getting into the data center business, Shaw gets immediate presence and expertise in the U.S. market. Read More.

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Your employees shouldn’t be your users

A Screw's Loose

'Whenever people talk about creating apps the conversation turns to delighting the customer. Companies build apps that will delight people. They will have a great user interface (UI) and an even better user experience (UX). They will enable people to do what they want/need to do. We learn from day one when you walk into [.].

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Giving Back to the Community

Scott Lowe

'(This is a repost of an announcement from the Spousetivities web site. I wanted to include it here for broader coverage. —Scott). For seven years, Spousetivities has been fortunate to be part of the VMware/ VMworld community. Since 2008, we’ve been the only community-focused and community-driven spouse activities program, and it’s been an honor.

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WayIn: Delivering ability to capture, curate, analyze, distribute meaningful social content

CTOvision

'Wayin is a social intelligence company that integrates social content into new experiences for consumers and delivers greater value and control for brands. Wayin provides the ability to aggregate, curate, integrate and measure social content and data in real-time allowing companies of all sizes to extend and derive new value from their social marketing and communication efforts.

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Bitcoin Hardware Player BitFury Enters Cloud Mining With 20MW Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'Leading mining ASIC supplier launches massive data center in the Republic of Georgia. Read More.

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July 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter

Storage IO Blog

'Server and StorageIO Update newsletter – July 2014 Welcome to the July 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization and data infrastructure topics. For some of you it is mid summer (e.g. in the northern hemisphere) while for others it mid-winter (southern hemisphere). Here in the Stillwater MN area […] The post July 2014 Server and StorageIO Update newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Web-Scale IT: Who Knows the Most? The Results are in at Nutanix

Nutanix

As you may know, we held a worldwide contest for the top score on the Web-Scale IQ Quiz from June 24th through last Friday, July 18th at 10pm PT. Hundreds of contestants competed for bragging rights on being the top expert on Web-Scale IT, plus a Geek Crate (see below), but there can be only one winner.

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FTC Makes Recommendations to Prevent Cramming

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. A recent press release from the Federal Trade Commission identifies “cramming” as a significant threat to American consumers and announces the release of an FTC report addressing the issue. The FTC defines cramming as “the unlawful practice of placing unauthorized third-party charges on mobile phone accounts.” Often applications and downloads do not clearly present their fees and charges, and those costs find their way to cell phone bills at the end of the month.

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 25th

Data Center Knowledge

'Here''s a look at some of the most popular stories on Data Center Knowledge for the week of July 25th. Read More.

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Go for Object Oriented Programmers

SPF13

'This presentation was given at OSCON 2014. Object Oriented (OO) programming has dominated software engineering for the last two decades. The paradigm built on powerful concepts such as Encapsulation, Inheritance, and Polymoprhism has been internalized by the majority of software engineers. Although Go is not OO in the strict sense, we can continue to leverage the skills we’ve honed as OO engineers to come up with simple and solid designs.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Why are VCDXs flocking to Nutanix?

Nutanix

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Video Shows What To Do When Your Cyber Adversaries Are Automating

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The video at this link and embedded below provides an overview of conclusions from CTOvision research into ways to automate the removal of cyber threats (including malware) from your enterprise. It highlights ten requirements CTOs, CIOs, CISOs and CFOs should articulate as critical to success in automating security response. The bottom line of this research: Your online adversaries are automating.

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Making Clusters Easy to Use and Easy to Own

Data Center Knowledge

'Companies have more choices than ever to save money and improve efficiency in their IT environment, writes Jerry Melnick of SIOS Technology Corp. However, additional options can present additional challenges. Read More.

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Go for Object Oriented Programmers

SPF13

'This presentation was given at OSCON 2014. Object Oriented (OO) programming has dominated software engineering for the last two decades. The paradigm built on powerful concepts such as Encapsulation, Inheritance, and Polymoprhism has been internalized by the majority of software engineers. Although Go is not OO in the strict sense, we can continue to leverage the skills we’ve honed as OO engineers to come up with simple and solid designs.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Why are VCDXs flocking to Nutanix?

Nutanix

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30 July Analyst Forum: Incredible Agenda And Even Greater Attendees

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. We are now two days away from the 30 July Analyst Forum , an event we organized with our partners at the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation ( USGIF ). Now that I have seen the most recent list of attendees coming to the forum I am more excited than ever. Although we have a a great agenda, the kind of people that will be in the room will turn a great agenda into an absolutely incredible event.

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Arizona Data Center Marketed for Bitcoin Mining Services

Data Center Knowledge

'NextFort and Gray Matter team up to offer fully remote mining server management. Read More.

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Foto Friday – Lake View Silhouette

Eric D. Brown

'I captured this over the weekend while out driving backroads around the house. Taken at Lake Sahoma during a cloud afternoon. Captured with an iPhone 5s. See more photos in my flickr photostream and/or my Zenfolio portfolio (where you can buy images). If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by visiting Adorama (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.